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Prof. Zilvinas Lilas

Professor für 3D-Animation
  Throughout his professional career Prof. Lilas served multiple positions ranging from Interactive Interface Designer to Chief Artist and a Technical Director for a number of start-up as well as internationally renowned companies such as Walt Disney Studios, Oddworld Inhabitants, Metrolight Studios, Artist's Inc., Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, Wexner Center for the Arts and etc., and worked on a handful of animated feature films, games, publications and television projects including Treasure Planet, Chicken Little, Munch's Odyssey, Siegfried and Roy and others. His research interest include interactive art and design, simulated environments and scenarios, identity and technology.

Prof. Lilas was involved with number of research projects such as Distance Learning project sponsored by the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (USA), Interaccess project supported by the Wexner Centre for the Arts, Art and Ecology project among others.
In 1991 he received a Diploma of Artist from the Vilnius Academy of Arts majoring in Painting. In 1996 he completed his Graduate Studies at the Ohio State University and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in 3D animation and painting.

Besides full time appintment at the KHM Prof. Lilas has been frequently invited to conduct lectures at a number of academies and universities such as International School of New Media, Lübeck (Germany); Siauliu University (Lithuania); Academy of Arts (Lithuania); Emerson College (USA) and Weimar University (Germany)

Zilvinas Lilas is a recipient of a Fellowship and Artist in Residency Award from the Banff Center for the Arts, Banff (Canada) 1993, The Fergus-Gilmore Award, 1994, Soros Foundation Travel Grant 1994, Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1991, among others.

Outside of his immediate academic appointment, Prof. Lilas is actively involved with administrative and curatorial tasks. In 2006-07 he organised a series of international guest speakers and a number of workshops at the KHM, also a symposium “Whale in Baltic” and curated 2 exhibitions.

Currently lives in Cologne, Germany with wife and 3 children.
Person:
Prof. Zilvinas Lilas

Email:
zlilas@khm.de

Details:
Peter-Welter-Platz 2,
3. OG links,
Raum 3.01
t.: 0221-20189-235
f.: 0221-20189-357
Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung

Seminare:
Wintersemester 2008/09
3D Play / Grundlagen 3D
European Capital of Culture 2009
Locomotion
Freies Zeichnen
3Dscope
Kolloquium Expanimation

Projektbetreuung:
DING von Alec Crichton
CubeBrowser von Charlotte Krauss, Andreas Muxel, Ludwig Zeller


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